Lubricant-separator.



T. J. WATERS.

LUBBIOANT BBPABATOR.

APPLIUATION FILED 11:13.13, 1909.

Patented Ja11.4, 1910.

THOMAS J'. WATERS, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

LUBRICANT-SEPARATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 4, 1910.

Application filed February 13, 1909. Seria] No. 477,776.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'lnoiuAs J. lVA'rnus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lubricant-Separators, of which the following is a specilication.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of separators which are einployed for separating the lubricant from exhaust-steam which has been carried by the latter from the engine.

The primary object of my invention is to provide an improved construction of separator whereby a maximum amount of lubricant carried by the exhaust-steam shall be separated therefrom without unduly im peding the circulation through the device.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a broken view showing my improved device in vertical sectional elevation, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan section taken on line 2, Fig. 1.

A casing comprising a head 3 and a cylinder 4 closed at its. lower end, except for a discharge opening hereinafter described, are secured together at their abutting Ranges, and a pipe 5 for exhauststeam open at its lower end and extending to within a short distance of the corresponding end of the cylinder, is flanged to the head to extend centrally of the cylinder'. Leading from a discharge opening in the lower end of the cylinder is a pipe 6 for the purpose of conducting therefrom the condensation and oil toasuitabletra (not shown). Adischargeport 7 is providled in the head through which the exhaust-steam is conducted from the separator.

Four similar yolres 8, forming a preferred form of baille-support, each of a width to just equal the space between the ipe 5 and cylinder 4 and joined at their ower ends by struts9, are supported on a flanve 10 projecting from the inner surface of the cylinder near its lower end. An inner series of conical baille-rings 11 provided with downturned flanges 12 and 13 has each of such members riveted through the flange 18 to the yoke-sections adjacent to the pipe 5, and a series of outer conical baille-rings 14 rovided with down-turned flanges 15 an 16 are similarly secured at their flan es 16 to the outer sections of the yolres; tie yokes and baffling-rings forming a battling skeleton-cylinder removable by withdrawal from the cylinder 4, upon disconnecting the lutter froln the head Il.

The rings lll and 14 are attached to the yolres in staggered relation, that is, the inner rings alternate with the outer rings, and the outer diameter of each ring 11 is slightly greater than that of the openings through the rings llt so that they overlap, and the steam upon leaving the inner end of the pipe 5 passes upward past the battling-rings and is thereby directed through a zig-zag course through the cylinder 5 to the head 3 to discharge, free of lubricant, through the port 7.

The rings 1l incline downwardly from their outer edges to their central openings to leave a space between them and the pipe. 5 equal to the thickness of the yolre-1ne1nbers- The rings 14 incline downwardly, but from their inner edges to their outer peripheries to leave a space between them and the cylin der 4 equal to the thickness of the adjacent yoke-sections.

The operation is as follows: As the exhauststeam from the engine passes downward through the pipe 5 it expands upon reaching the cylinder at the end of the pipe, and at this time drops much of the oil in the cup-shaped cylinder-end from which it, is trapped by way of the pipe 6. As the steam passes upward in the space between the pipe and cylinder, through the baillerings 14 and past the batilerings 11, itstrilres the under inclined surface of each succeeding batlle-ring by which it is. deflected. As the steam strikes the under surface'of each ring some of the oil adheres to this surface and some is carried onward by the steam to the next upper ring while some will be detlected by the action of the steam from the under side of one ring to the upper surface of the next ring below, by which it is caught. The oil caught by both the under and 'u per inclined surfaces of each rin drops rom the lower flange of each baiermg to eventually lodge in and be drawn from the end of the cylinder through the pipe 6.

articular advantage of the construction 1s that of its adapting the internal battling skeleton-cylinder to be readil withdrawn longitudinally from the cylinder 4 for cleansinv head 3 and die pipe 5.

lVhile the device is more particularly described herein as a lubricant separator, it is equally effective as a steam-separator purposes, upon removing the i meaning for Separating the Water of condensation from steam.

That I claim as new and desire to Secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In a separator of the character described, the combination of a casing provided with a discharge-outlet, a steam-pipe supported in the casing, and a bailing skeleton-cylinder loiwitudinally withdrawable from and inscrtible into the casing and surrounding said pipe therein, for the purpose set forth.

2. A scl'iarator of the character described comprising, in combination, a casing formed with a cup on one end having an opening provided with a discharge-pipe, a hollow head on the opposite end of the casing provided with an exhaust port, a stca1i'ipipe extending through said head into the casing and a battling skeleton'cylinder supported in the casing about said pipe, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a separator of thi` character de scribed, the combination with a casing provided with a discharge-outlet, a steam-pipe supported in the casing, a bafIie-ring support in the casing, and a series of battlerings on said support about the pipe and forming a zig-zag course for exhaustfstcain discharging from said pipe.

el. In a separator ot' the character described, the combination of a casing provided witli a discharge-outlet, a steam-pipe supported in the casing, a baille-ring support in the easing, and a staggered series of conical baille-rings about the pipe on said support and forming a zig-zag course for exhaust-steam discharging iroin said pipe.

5. In a separator of the character de scribed, the combination of a casing provided With a discharge-outlet, a steam-pipe supported in the easing, a baile-ring support in the casing, and a series of conical battlerings, of successively greater and lesser diameter, about the pipe in said support, and relatively inclining in successively cont ary directions, with the rings of lesser diameter overlapping the openings in those of greater diaineter.

G. In a separator of the character de scribed, the combination of a casing pro vided with a discl'iarge-outlet, a steam-pipe supported in the casing, a series of yolces confined in the casing to extend lengthwise thereof about said pipe, a series of conical bathe-rings secured to the outer yokeaneinbers to surround said pipe, and a series of conical baile-rings, of lesser diameter than and alternating with said first-named series, secured to the inner yoke-members to Surround said pipe.

7. In a separator of the character described, the combination of a easing provided With a discharge-outlet, a steam-pipe supported in the casing, a series of yolres Witlidrawably confined in the easing to extend lengthwise thereof about` said pipe, a series of conical baiie-rings having iianges depending from their opposite edges and secured attheir outer flanges to the outer yoke-members to surround said pipe, and a series of conicavlmbaliiWe-rings, lianged like and of lesser diameter than andi'alternating with said first-named series, secured through their inner flanges to the inner yoke-members to surround said pipe.

THOMAS J. WATERS.

In presence of* DAVID R. W'ATEns, RALPH SCHAEFER. 

